Stem Cells: Lessons from the Past, Lessons for the Future

Abstract

The beginning of the search for stem cells was the bombing of civilian populations in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the first use of nuclear weapons in which humans were the target. In retrospect those people who did not die from the blast or the fire but died with the lowest dose of lethal radiation, and the longest time from radiation to death, were those that… (More)